Week 4: The Case for Copyright Reform

Nowadays copyright violation and piracy is really a hot topic. From one side authors who produce their products for commercial purposes want to receive money for it and from other users who can easily download these products due to technology development and use them without any payment. In The Case for Copyright Reform book wrote by Rick Falkvinge and Christian Engströmi, it is proposed to use below solutions:

• Moral Rights Unchanged
• Free Non-Commercial Sharing
• 20 Years Of Commercial Monopoly
• Registration After 5 Years
• Free Sampling
• A Ban On DRM

I find these solutions logical and would agree with them. The thing is that it is really hard to verify what kind of contents users are sending to each other without an invasion of privacy what would mean violation of fundamental rights, such as freedom of information and private communication. And it doesn't seem that any restrictions taken by authors can solve this problem, as users will find a way to circumvent it.